HINGER,
GEORGE ERNEST, M. D., of Keokuk, Iowa, was born in Speyer, Germany,
on December 28th, 1828. His parents emigrated to the United States when
he was in his fifth year. Having received a sound primary education, he
became a student in Western Reserve College, Ohio, and graduated in
1853.

He settled down to the
duties of his profession in Lee county, Iowa, in April, 1853, and for
about five years faithfully continued his labors in accordance with
allopathic principles. Although he had met with fully average success in
his practice, he then came to the conclusion that the science of
medicine ought to have something better to offer than allopathy, and
determined to search for it. The something better he soon found in homopathy,
into the study and practice of which he entered with constantly
increasing zeal and confidence.

In 1860, he had become
so strongly convinced of the beneficence of homopathy and so impressed
with the importance of studying it systematically, that he temporarily
gave up his practice, and attended lectures in the Homopathic College
at Cleveland. Returning refreshed and strengthened, he continued to
labor in his old field until 1865, when he removed to Keokuk. There he
still remains, and possesses a large number of professional and social
friends.

Most of Dr. Ehinger's
labor in the West has been truly missionary, as homopathy fifteen
years ago was almost entirely unknown in that section of the country.
These pioneer efforts will hardly be realized or appreciated by an after
generation, though richly deserving their gratitude. They will indeed
reap where they have not sown, and enjoy in abundant measure the rewards
earned hut hardly tasted by those who have borne the heat and burden of
the day of battle with ignorance, prejudice and partisanship. Dr.
Ehinger himself, however, feels amply repaid for all he has endured in
the progress thus far attained by homopathy. Its cause never had a
more ardent advocate.